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The longest, active consecutive streak of Rawlings Gold Glove Award wins belongs to St. Louis' Molina with five, beginning in 2008. Kansas City's Gordon is next with two consecutive wins.

Not sure that second part is worth mentioning even.

If Andrelton Simmons doesn't win, it'll make the Trout/Cabrera stuff look like a minor skirmish.

I would be shocked if he wins. Nothing against his great season, but it's still a manager/coaches vote and he is just not well enough known to get the votes outside of the NL East managers.

Looking at the list, and I can't comprehend how Ellis is a nominee. I understand Martin making the list, but Ellis? Who has watched him catch and think he's good? I think Molina winning it again is pretty much a given though. I hope Greinke wins it, but am afraid that Wainwright will win it instead.

1B in the AL will be either Hosmer, Loney, or Crush Davis. DRS for them are +5, +3, and -4. Best defensive ratings for the 2013 season were by 2 guys who didn't even play first base the year before, Mike Napoli (+11) and Nick Swisher (+8).

The best expected defenders for the AL at first were probably Pujols and Teixiera who spent most of the year either injured, at DH, or both.

I hope Davis wins it just for laughs. I mean, the guy hit 53 homers! Obviously he deserves a gold glove for that.

I hope it makes a difference, as it stands the old system sucked ass. For every good vote they get right, they miss three. Larkin is owed a few of Ozzie's gloves, Yadier is owed a few of Martin/Ausmus gloves etc. I'm not trusting the improvements until I see them in action. Hopefully we won't have any more Jeter/Palmiero level of stupid choices, but that doesn't mean we will get youth awareness sooner than before.

I would be shocked if he wins. Nothing against his great season, but it's still a manager/coaches vote and he is just not well enough known to get the votes outside of the NL East managers.

It would be cool if Nolan Arenado won, because he's not just a rookie, but a rookie for an also-ran, non-glamour team. But he was really outstanding with the glove, and the NL doesn't really have a widely recognized defensive third baseman (Chase Headley won it last year). When was the last time a rookie won a Gold Glove?

As somebody who watched nearly every Dodges game, it's pretty shocking to see Adrian Gonzalez and Mark Ellis on the list of finalists (and even more shocking to see them on the leaderboards for some of the advanced defensive stats). I know both of them have been outstanding defensively in the past, but both of these guys have lost about three steps, and neither one displayed soft hands even when they did reach the ball. Gonzalez had an atrocious defensive year, and Ellis, while not quite as bad, was solidly below average.

Now Juan Uribe, on the other hand, was extraordinary, and it will be a travesty if he doesn't win, Arenado be damned.

Martin in '07 wasn't a case of a mediocre catcher getting by on reputation. The numbers make a good case for him, and this was before getting into pitch framing. I don't have a dog in that hunt, but he is a great defensive catcher, even if his overall game is not currently equal to Molina's.

Yeah, Martin, for that one year at least, was an incredible defensive catcher and richly deserved that Gold Glove. In his later years with the Dodgers he went downhill defensively, especially getting lazy on blocking wild pitches. He's gotten back a bit of his mojo since. But for that one season he was absolutely extraordinary, and very much deserved the Gold Glove over Molina.

The Finalists don't exactly jibe with the "top 3" from SABR. There are some players that got more SDI votes than ended up on this ballot. I am not privy to how Rawlings decides how to utilize the SDI votes submitted by SABR.

The only guy I see as likely to win from these finalists that really seems like a poor choice is Adam Jones in CF in the AL. For 2013, he's -2 DRS, -6.8 UZR and the underlying component scores basically show him with horrible range and making back some runs with his arm. According to the numbers he's basically a RFer playing CF, and yet he's won two GG and probably is in line to win a 3rd this year.

My eyes agree with that evaluation. Jones is good at going back towards the wall, but when you watch the Orioles, a lot of balls drop in front of Jones or shallow in the gaps for hits that even an average CFer catches.